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‘SNL’ Cold Open Riffs on Trump Trial and His VP Picks
In the cold open for the 'SNL' Season 49 finale, James Austin Johnson portrayed former president Donald Trump at his NYC trial.
The 49 th season finale of “Saturday Night Live” opened with James Austin Johnson as Donald Trump speaking at the barricades of a Manhattan courthouse, in a nod to Trump’s ongoing legal woes amid his presidential campaign. You’re gonna get that Trump espresso,” he sings in a reference to a Sabrina Carpenter song. Trump finishes the cold open shouting, “In the words of my mentor, the late great Hannibal Lecter, “Live from New York, it’s Saturday night!”
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